"I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act."

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"If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes."

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"Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good."

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"Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001."

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"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace."

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"While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously."

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"To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion."

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"Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab."

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"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."

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"I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce."

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"I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past."

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"Day after day, I spent long afternoons in the talent pool, being told how to walk, how to talk, how to sit."

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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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"I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed."

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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

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"Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese."

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"I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him."

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"I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years."

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"In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress."

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